Inside These Walls
We’re glad you stopped by to take a tour of our church. This is more than just a building—it’s a place we’re proud to call home. For generations, our families, members, and friends have cared for this building, including many of us whose families helped build and sustain this church from the very beginning. We take pride in preserving its history while finding new ways to make it warm, welcoming, and ready for the next generation.
Our Decorating Committee is always finding ways to add a special touch, whether it’s fresh seasonal decorations, flowers, or one of our favorite traditions: a Christmas tree, seasonally decorated, that remains with us throughout the year. (Christmastime is kind of a big deal around here.) We hope you’ll enjoy exploring our church, discovering a little of its history, and seeing the many ways this building continues to serve our community. And, most importantly, we hope you’ll come visit us in person—we’d love to welcome you through our doors and have you join our church family.
Narthex
When you first step through the doors of our church, you enter our Narthex. Here, you’ll be greeted, receive the morning bulletin, and have the opportunity to explore some of the storied history of our church.
Throughout the Narthex, you’ll find artifacts, books, photographs, documents, and plaques honoring the work and service of members, ministers, and friends—past and present. Together, they tell the story of our church and its place in the Stony Point community, reaching all the way back to our founding in 1834.
Sanctuary
A few steps further and you’ll enter our warm and welcoming sanctuary, a place at the heart of our church’s life for generations. Thousands of worship services have been held here—from Sunday morning, evening, and midweek worship to Holy Communion, Baptisms, weddings, funerals, and our beloved Christmas Plays & Christmas Eve Candlelight Services.
For nearly 200 years, generations of Stony Pointers have gathered here to worship, celebrate, grieve, give thanks, and mark life’s milestones. The faces and voices have changed, but the purpose of this sacred space remains: to gather as a church family, hear the Word of God, sing, pray, and share in the life of our community. You are welcome in our pews, too.
Meeting Room
Also known as the Lecture Room, this room behind our sanctuary is where much of the work of our church takes place. Here, the Administrative Board makes decisions about upcoming ministries, the Trustees care for our facilities, the Finance Committee reviews our books, and the PPR Committee meets with our minister. All of it happens in a room made warmer by the artwork generously donated by our members and friends.
Over the years, the Lecture Room has served many purposes. The Choir once gathered here to rehearse, our Craft Group created handmade items to sell at church dinners, and the Worship Committee planned upcoming services around the table. It is a room where ideas are shared, decisions are made, friendships are strengthened, and the work of our church family continues.
Office
Our church office was added as part of a major capital improvement campaign in the late 1980s, along with modern bathrooms and an expanded kitchen below. While modern technology allows much of the work of the church to happen remotely, this remains an important hub for our day-to-day ministry.
It’s here that The Church Bell and our weekly bulletins are prepared, printed, and assembled, and where the cabinets hold the supplies and materials that help keep our church running. (And, a coffee machine always sits at the ready.) It may be a small space, but a lot of the work that keeps our church moving happens right here.
Bathrooms
And, of course, every church tour eventually leads to one of the most practical stops: our bathrooms! While they may not have the history or grandeur of our sanctuary, they play an important role in making our church comfortable and welcoming for everyone who walks through our doors.
Over the years, these spaces have served generations of members, guests, children, and visitors—before worship, after fellowship dinners, during Sunday School, and whenever nature calls. They may be a small part of our building, but they are part of what makes our church a place where people can gather, stay awhile, and feel at home.
Fellowship Hall
If these walls could talk, they would have quite a story to tell. Downstairs, our Fellowship Hall (also known as Memorial Hall) has been the setting for countless church suppers over the years—including our legendary roast beef dinners. It has been a place where good food, good conversation, and good fellowship have brought our church family together time and time again.
But the Fellowship Hall is much more than a dining room. It has doubled as our Sunday School classroom, hosted plenty of wonderfully chaotic “Super Sloppy Sunday School” mornings, and been the scene of Vacation Bible Schools, Talent Shows, White Elephant Bingos, Penny Sales, Youth Group Lock-Ins, Pot Luck Suppers, Coffee Hours, Luncheons, and countless other gatherings. It’s a place that has seen its share of laughter, celebrations, memories, and messes—and that’s exactly what makes it special.
Kitchen
Originally hand-dug by our minister in the early 1930s and expanded as part of the church’s improvements in the late 1980s, our kitchen could write a history all its own. For generations, it has been the behind-the-scenes heart of our church dinners, gatherings, and fellowship—where meals were prepared, coffee was poured, dishes were washed, and countless hands worked together to feed our church family.
Now, it’s writing its next chapter. Completely gutted in Summer 2026, the kitchen is being reimagined and rebuilt, with the goal of bringing this important space back to life. The new kitchen will give us a place to cook, serve, gather, and create new traditions for generations to come. We can’t wait to see—and share—what comes next.
